Engaging, Persuading, and Entertaining Citizens

Engaging Citizens in Environmental Monitoring via Gaming

Citizen science is quickly becoming one of the most effective tools for the rapid and low-cost collection of environmental information, filling a long recognized gap in in-situ data. Incentivizing citizens to participate, however, remains a challenge, with gaming being widely recognized as an effective solution to overcome the participation barrier. Building upon well-known gaming mechanics, ga...

Engaging Citizens in the Fight against Corruption

The paper aims at presenting first results from the EU-funded project entitled “Promotion of Participation and Citizenship in Europe through the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) of Transparency International” supported by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The research project is a joined venture between the Transparency International Secretariat and a team ...

Engaging Citizens and Patients in Health Research: Learning from Experience

Do We Choose What We Desire? - Persuading Citizens to Make Consistent and Sustainable Mobility Decisions

A dilemma in urban mobility with tremendous effects on citizens’ wellbeing is the unconscious antipode between their shortand long-term goals. People do not anticipate all consequences of their modal choices and thus make decisions that might be incoherent with their desires, e.g. taking their own car due to convenience but causing a congested city. Omnipresent Information Systems on smartphone...

Engaging Citizens in Local Government: Florida’s Challenge Briefing Paper

Citizen participation is a cornerstone of democracy in America. Among the important ways in which citizens participate are: voting, the most basic right and responsibility of every citizen; engaging with government to help establish good policies and to solve public problems and volunteering to help one’s community and those in need. These are time-honored values of citizenship taught in our sc...